Question 1

Which of the following is a reasonable objection to the claim that prostitutes cannot truly consent?

Accepted Answer

A)  This claim suggests that prostitutes are uninformed about the risks of their activities. 
B)  This claim suggests that all prostitutes are minors. 
C)  This claim suggests that prostitutes are exercising their personal liberty. 
D)  This claim suggests that prostitutes are either lying or ignorant of their own motives.

Question 2

Talk about:
-Polyamorous relationships

Accepted Answer

The answer of Talk about:
-Polyamorous relationships...

Question 3

Talk about:
-Pre-marital sex

Accepted Answer

The answer of Talk about:
-Pre-marital sex...

Question 4

What does Nussbaum say in response to the argument that prostitution should not be legalized because it involves the invasion of one's intimate bodily space?

Accepted Answer

A)  This invasion makes prostitution morally bad, but that doesn't mean it should be illegal. 
B)  The same could be said of any sexual encounter that does not involve love or marriage, but we typically do not condemn all such encounters. 
C)  There is no such thing as intimate bodily space. 
D)  None of the above

Question 5

Which of the following is true according to Brake?

Accepted Answer

A)  Love and sex is zero-sum game. 
B)  Polyamorists are not always open and honest. 
C)  Everyone, monogamists and polyamorists alike, seeks the same qualities in a relationship. 
D)  None of the above

Question 6

What is the conclusion of the Liberal Argument regarding sexual morality?

Accepted Answer

A)  Every type of sexual activity among humans, except rape and sex with children, can be morally permissible, so long as their participants have given informed consent. 
B)  Every type of sexual activity among humans, except rape and sex with children, can be morally permissible, so long as they promote love, honesty, loyalty, and devotion. 
C)  If homosexual acts are contrary to "family values," then they are immoral. 
D)  If adult prostitution is contrary to personal liberty, then it is morally acceptable.

Question 7

What is one reply Nussbaum gives to the argument that prostitution should not be decriminalized because it involves health risks and risks of violence?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is possible to remove all such risks in legalizing prostitution. 
B)  Prostitution is within the limits of legally acceptable risk. 
C)  Prostitution does not incur such risks any more than other jobs. 
D)  Unlike activities like boxing, prostitution should not be regulated to reduce these risks.

Question 8

Corvino accepts that homosexual sex is unnatural in which sense?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is statistically abnormal. 
B)  It is not practiced by other animals. 
C)  It violates the purpose of one's reproductive organs. 
D)  It is not the result of innate features of organisms.

Question 9

Case Study
Chelsea and Shawn are college students have been dating for several months, but they have not yet committed to dating each other exclusively. Chelsea informs Shawn while on a dinner date one night that she feels ready to have sex with him. Shawn agrees that he also feels ready. The two have a glass of wine each at dinner and decide to stop by a cocktail bar afterward. They each have two strong cocktails before returning to Shawn's apartment.
Shawn makes another cocktail for himself and Chelsea while they are hanging out at his apartment. After drinking her cocktail, Chelsea begins to kiss Shawn and he reciprocates her affection. Both Chelsea and Shawn feel somewhat intoxicated, but neither is losing consciousness or slurring their words. Without explicitly discussing what they are about to do, Chelsea and Shawn have sex. The next morning, Shawn remembers the details well, but Chelsea's recollection is fuzzy.
-Did Chelsea and Shawn have consensual sex? Does the fact that Chelsea initiated kissing Shawn show that she consented to sex? Is it morally relevant than Shawn made Chelsea a cocktail before they had sex?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Case Study
Chelsea and Shawn are college students...

Question 10

According to the Argument from Sexual Moralism, the Lenient Thesis rests on an

Accepted Answer

A)  overly permissive conception of sexual autonomy. 
B)  insufficiently developed theory of moral rights. 
C)  objectionably moralized conception of sex. 
D)  All of the above

Question 11

Why, according to Corvino, does the biblical criticism of homosexual sex fail?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Bible contains errors about other matters and therefore can't be trusted as infallible. 
B)  The Bible doesn't actually contain explicit prohibition of homosexual sex. 
C)  It does not consider the context in which the Bible was written. 
D)  The Bible is never an appropriate source of moral guidance.

Question 12

Which of the following is not an argument for why the deceived do not give their morally valid consent to sex?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Argument from the Case of the Chihuahua 
B)  The Harm Explanation 
C)  The Argument from Sexual Moralism 
D)  The Argument from a Substantive Account of Consent

Question 13

According to West, when women consent to undesired sex because of their dependency upon a partner's affection or economic status, they injure their sense of

Accepted Answer

A)  autonomy. 
B)  self-possession. 
C)  integrity. 
D)  self-assertion.

Question 14

Which of the following is not a sense of the word "unnatural" that Corvino considers?

Accepted Answer

A)  Not practiced by other animals 
B)  Not proceeding from innate desires 
C)  Contrary to the laws of physics 
D)  Unusual or abnormal

Question 15

How does engaging in unpleasurable, undesired consensual sex injure a woman's sense of selfhood according to West?

Accepted Answer

A)  By injuring a woman's capacity for self-assertion 
B)  By injuring a woman's capacity for self-possession 
C)  By injuring a woman's capacity for autonomy 
D)  All of the above

Question 16

Explain some of the different things someone might mean by saying that a particular behavior is "unnatural." Is homosexual sex "unnatural," by these conditions? If so, does this give us reason to think that it is morally wrong? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Explain some of the different things someone...

Question 17

The etymology of polyamory is

Accepted Answer

A)  "many marriages." 
B)  "many loves." 
C)  "many partners." 
D)  "many lives."

Question 18

Nussbaum argues that "there appears to be nothing baneful or value-debasing about taking money for a service, even when that service expresses something intimate about the self." Do you agree with this claim? Why might someone think that this claim does not generalize to taking money for sex?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Nussbaum argues that "there appears to be...

Question 19

According to West, what do liberal and radical feminism have in common?

Accepted Answer

A)  Both embrace Marxism. 
B)  Both hold that whatever is non-coercive is morally non-problematic. 
C)  Both valorize ordinary heterosexual transactions. 
D)  All of the above

Question 20

Which claim does Corvino make in response to the objection that homosexual sex is harmful?

Accepted Answer

A)  There is nothing inherently risky about sex between persons of the same gender. 
B)  The behavior of some homosexual people should not be taken to reflect upon all homosexual people. 
C)  Lesbian sex is actually less risky than heterosexual sex. 
D)  All of the above

Exam 23: Sexual Morality